Matt Ridley
Matt (Matthew) Ridley (born
February 7,
1958 at
Newcastle upon Tyne) is a
British science writer. He received a doctorate in
zoology from the
University of Oxford before commencing a career in science journalism. He worked as a science correspondent for
The Economist and
The Daily Telegraph. He is the author of four acclaimed works of science popularization.
- The Red Queen
- The Origins of Virtue
- Genome
- Nature Via Nurture : genes, experience, and what makes us human
In these books Ridley explains the ideas that have grown out of the
gene revolution in
biology. In his commentary Ridley is relatively unabashed in revealing his personal commitment to a
libertarian political philosophy, in constrast to
Richard Dawkins, who, though similarly
reductionist and
atheistic, maintains a political fealty towards
social democracy.
